PHD PROGRAMS IN POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

IMT Lucca, Italy
Scholarship / Financial aid: 15 scholarships each of 13.638,00 Euros gross available
Date: 3 years stating March 2009
Deadline: December 5, 2008
Open to: students
Announcement follows:
The PhD Program aims to make students familiar with analytical tools and methodologies of investigation elaborated within different contemporary traditions in social sciences, thereby providing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to both evaluate comparatively the performance of institutional systems, and elaborate proposals for structural reforms.
The courses will especially focus on the historical, political, institutional and economic dynamics that have been characterising the development of European and ex Soviet countries after the Second Word War. They will then consider among other topics: the institutional and decisional dynamics of European countries and the European Union including the trends towards multilevel governance both at the European and at the domestic level (federalisation, independent regulatory authorities, etc.); transatlantic relations EU-US; relations between politics, social processes and political economy decisions; paths of economic and political development; the institutional workings of international organisations; the characters of some geographical areas of special relevance.
Duration: 3 years
Language: Courses and seminars are held in English. Foreign PhD students are required to attend an Italian Language and Culture Course.
Classes begin in: March 2009.
Deadline: The deadline for applications is December 5, 2008 at 6:00pm (Italian time).
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